. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. ack without a fastening. Yet thehouses and castles hold there as if:liey were nailed down. At the footof the rock some feet of land havejeen reclaimed from the river, andthat is for the streets of the LowerTown. Quebec is a dried shred of the I Middle Ages, hung high up near the North Pole, far from the beaten tracksof the Eu
. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. ack without a fastening. Yet thehouses and castles hold there as if:liey were nailed down. At the footof the rock some feet of land havejeen reclaimed from the river, andthat is for the streets of the LowerTown. Quebec is a dried shred of the I Middle Ages, hung high up near the North Pole, far from the beaten tracksof the European tourists—a curiosity without parallel on this side of theocean. We traversed each street as we would have turned the leaves of abook of engravings, containing a new painting on each page. * * *The locality ought to be scrupulously preserved antique. Let modern progressbe carried elsewhere ! When Quebec has taken the pains to go and perchherself awaj^ up near Hudsons Bay, it would be cruel and unfitting to dareto harass her with new ideas, and to speak of doing away with the narrowand tortuous streets that charm all travellers, in order to .seek conformitywith the fantastic ideas of comfort in vogue in the nineteenth centur}. Nor have Canadian writers failed to pay at this seat of ancient dominion the homage which it extorts from visitors from other lands. Very eloquent have been the tributes paid b^^ many of them, for few have approached the grand old storied rock without emotion, or been insens
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